Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches or uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service. -- Swami Ramdas
Isn't that a lovely thought? A lily-of-the-valley does not choose who gets to glory in its scent...the devil or an angel, makes no nevermind to the flower. It just gives.
We learn early on that we are the source of all our woes, but it is ever a surprise when we're reminded that we are the source of all our happy, too.
Most everybody has experienced a time when, for no known reason, everyone we met smiled at us, or spoke a friendly Hey. Doesn't it feel all's-right-with-my-world to know we were radiating the love that was returning to us?
Same goes, of course, for the times when we were getting nothing but grief from friends, foes, strangers and pets. There it is...just as a flower's fragrance...we were giving the grief we were getting.
Doesn't this confirm what we have learned...that we already have all the patience, all the kindness, all the love there is to have stored within us right this very minute? That all we need do is use it?
Uh-oh. That opens our mind to the fact that all ugly, all hate, all disrespect is stored within us, too. All we need is to not use them...or to not respond in kind as our fragile ego demands.
It's no surprise that our life lesson is probably all about learning to flip our own inner switch from self to un-selfed. From personal to impersonal. From me to thee...to Thee. Ah, to Thee...back where we began...where we belong.
God loves us so much.
Thank you.
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